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0. AVEDYK. MANUFACTURING AND BOTTLING AERATED WATER.

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UNITED STATES LATENT OFFICE.

OCTAVE AVEDYK, OF LOUVAIN, BELGIUM.

MANUFACTURING AND BOTTLING AERATED WATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,462, dated June 4, 1889. Application filed June 13, 1888. Serial No. 276,999. (No model.) Patented in BelgiumDecember 6, 1887, No. 79,822; in France December 23, 1887, No. 187,787; in Germany December 31,

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OOTAVE AVEDYK, a subject of the King of Belgium, residing at Louvain, in the Kingdom of Belgium, have invented certa'in new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture and Bottling of Aerated WVaters, (and which I have patented in Belgium, No. 7 9,822, dated Decem her 6, 1887; in France, No. 187,787, December 23, 1887; in Germany, number of certificate 17,877, dated December 31, 1887, and in Great Britain, No. 5,272, April 9, 1888,) of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore vessels for aerated liquids, particularly those known as siphon bottles, have been filled with the aerated liquid by the following process: The water is mixed with carbonic-acid or other suitable gas and the mixture of ,water and gas is then introduced into the bottle. This process is not only inconvenient, but it also requires expensive plant, precluding the manufacture in small quantities, such as for domestic use.

The apparatus forming the subject of the presentinvention permits of the manufacture of aerated waters in any desired quantity and the filling of bottles in any desired number without the least difficulty, the method employed being that of first filling the bottle with water and then saturating the water with gas. 4

The invention which forms the subject of this application consists in a distributing-conduit for the water and gas, provided with any required number of nozzles and connected with a gas-producer or with a reservoir containing the fluid in question, with speciallyconstructed details hereinafter described.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the distribu ting-conduit provided with a suitable number of nozzles; Fig. 2, a side View of the supporting-frame; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the arrangement on a larger scale; Figs. 4, 5, and 6, detail views.

The distributing-conduit may consist of a pipe a, supported horizontally by standards I) and fitted with pipes g and nozzles h, placed 7 at convenient distances apart, the latter bemg so constructed that the siphon or bottle mouths pressed against the same by a convenient arrangement will be hermetically 1887, No. 17,877, andin England April 9, 1888, No. 5,272.

sealed against the said nozzles. The end of nozzle h forms a kind of mouth-piece, into which the outlet-pipe of the siphon is inserted while being filled. The mouth-piece contains a perforated rubber disk 1', which, as in Fig. 5, may be either merely pushed into the bottom of the mouth-piece or maybe retained by .making the mouth-piece into a sleeve, as

shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. By such means when the siphon outlet-tube is pressed against the rubber disk with sufficient force the joint will be completely or hermetically tight.

An advantageous arrangement for pressing the siphon outlet-tubes against the mouthpieces is shown in Figs. 3 and 6. From the connecting-piece by which the nozzles g are attached to the distributing-pipe a rises a hollow internally-threaded pivot T. Sliding on the latter, by a central hollow portion 0, is a lever L, which bears upon a spiral spring R, surrounding the pivot. The head V of a pin screwed into the pivot T bears upon the upper part of the central hollow portion of the said lever, thus allowing the leverL to be raised or lowered. The ends of the lever are formed with laterally-slotted hoods or caps 07., which, when the lever L is suitably turned, engage with the neck of the siphons on the nozzles. An attachment n on the lever then presses against the bill-shaped outlet-tubes of the siphons, so that a hermetically-tight junction with the india-rubber disk is produced. On the said hoods or caps hang rings on, which, when turned up and placed upon the siphonlevers, draw the same down, thereby keeping the bottles open during filling.

Instead of the lever L, a cap S, made integral with the nozzle h, may be used for pressing the siphon-tube against the nozzle, Fig. 4. This cap is fitted with a ring to, similar to that on lever L. The cap S serves the same purpose as the aforesaid lever L. The latter is, however, more convenient in use, particularly for filling large quantities.

When a bottle-clamp such as is shown in Fig. 4 and designated as cap S is used, it may be turned to one side when it is desired to attach a bottle to the apparatus. The under side of the cap S is provided with an inclined lug 19, similar tothat on the lever L, and the nozzle h is screwed to the pipe g, so that as the cap S and nozzle h are turned the inclined lug 19 will be pressed upon the bill-shaped outlet of the siphon and press it upon the rubber disk i in the nozzle, thereby hermetically sealing it.

The manner of filling, therefore, is as follows: hen the siphon-bottles are hermetically aflixed to the nozzles g h, as above described, the bottles hanging downward, the whole system is turned over for the purpose of fillin g in the waterthat is to say, so that the bottle-bodies are turned upward. \Vater is now admitted until the bottle is full, the air contained in the bottle meanwhile escaping through the same tube by which the water enters, the end of which remaining above the surface of the water in the bottle and the air forces its way past the in llowin g stream of water as the pressure due to the compression of the air increases. In this way the bottle may be filled with water without requiring more than one aperture in the bottle. If it were attempted to fill the bottle while in its usual position, water would flow in until the pressure of the compressed air on the inside of the bottle became equal to that of the head of water, when the inflow would cease. For introducing the carbonic-acid gas or for saturating the water therewith, the bottles are turned downward again and the conduit 0 is connected with a gas-producer or with a receiver containing the carbonic gas under pressure, and the bottles are left in contact with the gas until the saturation is complete. Then the rings m are released an d the valves of the siphons closed thereby.

The several conduits, pipes, or nozzles may be fitted with stop-cocks at suitable places, so as to close the several connections respectively as described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a device for bottling aerated liquids, the combination of a main supply-pipe connected with a source of water, and also of gas, and provided with means by which one or both of them may be admitted to it, as desired, nozzles connected with said pipe by an invertible connection, and a yoke pivoted to the invertible connection, each end of which is adapted to engage the neck of a siphonbottle and hold it against a nozzle, substantially as described.

2. In a device for bottling aerated liquids, the combination of a main supply-pipe con nected with a source of water, and also of gas, and provided with means by which one or both of them may be admitted to it, as desired, nozzles connected with said pipe by an invertible connection, and a yoke pivoted to the invertible connection, each end of which is adapted to engage the neck of a siphonbottle and hold it against a nozzle, and provided with a ring or hook adapted to engage the valve-lever of the bottle and maintain it in an open position while the bottle is being filled, substantially as described.

OC'IAVE AVED'YK.

\Vitnesses:

Aue. Jonmsnn, .T. STEINER. 

